(15 Sep 2017, 8:24 pm)Dans_bus_photos wrote But isn't that GNE's little trick when they take on a tender of a certain service to extend/merge it into one of their routes? X40 into the Q3, Q1/Q2s with the 51/52s etc rather than just running it as a separate service.
The Quaylink would have been lost completely, if not taken on commercially by Go North East. Funding was pulled, and GNE found a way to keep it going, albeit at a reduced frequency, by merging it with the 51/52. I think Haymarket to Great Park on the Q3 is still secured, but Haymarket to Wallsend is commercial?